About
Cisco Quantum Labs is the quantum networking research division of Cisco Systems Inc., founded in 2021 with facilities in Santa Monica and San Jose. In May 2025, Cisco formally opened its Quantum Labs facility in Santa Monica, unveiling quantum technologies that included a network-aware distributed quantum compiler for running quantum algorithms across multiple networked processors, a vendor-agnostic quantum networking framework, and a prototype quantum entanglement chip developed with UC Santa Barbara that generates one million entangled photon pairs per second at room temperature. Cisco expects its quantum networking work to bring practical quantum computing applications within 5 to 10 years and lay the foundation for a quantum internet. In September 2025, Cisco expanded its quantum networking software portfolio with enhanced network orchestration for quantum key distribution (QKD) networks, supporting enterprise-grade quantum-safe communications and integration with existing network management systems for hybrid classical-quantum deployments. In April 2026, Cisco introduced the Universal Quantum Switch, which routes quantum information across polarization, time-bin, and frequency-bin encodings at room temperature over existing telecom fiber. Cisco demonstrated it on a 17.6 km fiber link in New York City with under 4% fidelity degradation. Cisco Quantum Labs serves telecommunications operators, enterprises, government agencies, and cloud providers that need quantum networking infrastructure.
Quantum Specifications
| Quantum Focus | software |